There are ways to preserve spending on a budget, something a lot of Nova Scotians know about. You cut the waste and inefficiencies when times are tight. You streamline. Working more like a business in the sense that you look for ways to boost productivity with fewer inputs. There is very little consideration for this in our current government because of the nature of the bureaucracy. They are not competing to make things better. You can provide most of the same services with greater reductions in cost without any further economic inputs and see less interruptions to the end user.

There are systems that any competitive business uses that can be put in place to drain the inefficiency of government without making the government seek direct competition. Use key indicators to mark progress, etc.

The classic example of inefficiency in our province is the road work. Anyone driving by can count 14 lumps standing around while one guy operates a truck and another guy is actually doing something. We need a government that is hard on themselves to reduce the burden on taxpayers while increasing their outcomes, which should be the reason they are there in the first place.